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Analysis of nitric oxide transfer and release rate for a cysteine modified polymer
(2010-05)
Scope and Method of Study: In order to improve the haemocompatibility of biomaterials so that platelet adhesion on the surface can be minimized, a cysteine (CySH) modified polymer was developed previously and preliminary ...
Relationship of Climate Change to Seawater Intrusion in Coastal Aquifers
(Oklahoma State University, 2014-07-01)
Scientific consensus has established that climate change over the next century will cause a significant rise in global mean sea level. a confluence of factors places this rise to be between 0.25 meters and 0.95 Meters, ...
Robust Shortest Paths under Uncertainty Using Conditional Value-at-Risk
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-12-01)
Finding a shortest path in a network is a classical problem in discrete optimization. The systems underlying the network models are subjects to a variety of sources of uncertainty. The purpose of this thesis is to model ...
Sparse data-driven modeling framework for non-linear fluid flows
(2017-12)
Although fluid flows have been successfully modeled using the Navier-stokes equations, there exists only a limited class of flows for which exact analytical or numerical solutions are feasible at this time. For many practical ...
Accelerating convergence of leapfrogging optimization - Applications to nonlinear process modeling and nonlinear model predictive control
(2014-07)
Conventionally used optimization methods in chemical engineering applications such as linear programming (LP), Levenberg-Marquardt and sequential quadratic programming (SQP) handle nonlinear objective function (OF) surfaces ...
From Tobacco Road to Tinsel Town: Assessing the Context of Smoking in Movies in Terms of Social Modeling Implications
(Oklahoma State University, 2011-07-01)
This study examines the social modeling implications of smoking portrayals in movies as they relate to influencing whether adolescents begin smoking or not. Drawing on the work of Bandura and others, the study identifies ...
Design of an Axial Flow Bioreactor for Tissue Regeneration
(Oklahoma State University, 2012-05-01)
Modeling of bioreactors using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) tools have been adapted for several bioreactor configurations such as flow-through, parallel-flow, and rotary. In this study, modeling was mainly performed ...
Approach to Modeling and Optimization of Integrated Renewable Energy System (Ires)
(Oklahoma State University, 2013-12-01)
The purpose of this study was to cost optimize electrical part of IRES (Integrated Renewable Energy Systems) using HOMER and maximize the utilization of resources using MATLAB programming. IRES is an effective and a viable ...
Experimental investigation and simulation of a fluidized-bed gasifier using switchgrass
(2013-12)
The overall goal of this research was to improve and optimize yield and composition of syngas generated from biomass gasification using an autothermal lab-scale fluidized-bed gasifier, and to develop a biomass gasification ...
Wet scrubbing of biomass producer gas tars using vegetable oil
(2014-05)
The overall aims of this research study were to generate novel design data and to develop an equilibrium stage-based thermodynamic model of a vegetable oil based wet scrubbing system for the removal of model tar compounds ...